Friday, October 3, 2008

The Los Angeles Times reports that actor House Peters, Jr., who played Mr. Clean in a television advertising campaign and appeared on TV shows such as The Lone Ranger and Lassie, died on October 1, 2008.

Peters also appeared in several films, including The Day the Earth Stood Still and Red Planet Mars (1952), starring Peter Graves and Andrea King, in which he played the character of Dr. Boulting.

"I'm an optimist. I discard all such dark tomorrows. I have faith in man as God and God as man; I believe we'll be immortal, seed the stars and live forever in the flesh of our children. That's my job as a writer -- to show man his basic goodness, to dramatize his struggle up and away from this planet." -- RB